A work co-created with Allen.

The Roman governor Pontius Pilate pointed to Jesus — wearing the crown of thorns, draped in a purple robe, his hands bound — and called out to the people of Jerusalem: "Ecce homo." Since then, interpretations and anecdotes surrounding depictions of the crowned Christ have never ceased; what shifts endlessly are the perspectives and figures, while what remains is the myriad faces of human good and evil.

At this point, he very reluctantly looked at the face of the dead man. It was as it had been in life; no sign of the promised redemption was to be detected; what all the others had found in the machine the officer had not found; the lips were firmly pressed together, the eyes were open, with the same expression as in life, the look was calm and convinced, through the forehead went the point of the great iron spike.

„Exit ergo Iesus portans spineam coronam et purpureum vestimentum. Et dicit eis Pilatus: Ecce homo." — Ioannes 19:5, Vulgata

„Es war, wie es im Leben gewesen war; kein Zeichen der versprochenen Erlösung war zu entdecken; was alle anderen in der Maschine gefunden hatten, der Offizier hatte es nicht gefunden; die Lippen waren fest aufeinander gepreßt, die Augen waren offen, hatten den Ausdruck des Lebens, der Blick war ruhig und überzeugt, durch die Stirn ging die Spitze des großen eisernen Stachels." — Franz Kafka, In der Strafkolonie